DragonFly on a Intel G965 Mainboard

2006-11-13 Thread Markus Hitter
Hello all, after working and developing on MacOS 9, Mac OS X, IRIX and AIX for some 15 years I recently decided to assemble a "generic Intel" box: E6400 processor, Intel DG965SS Mainboard, 0.5 GB RAM, SATA, Ethernet and X3000 Graphics on board, latest BIOS installed. While Windows 2000 i

Re: DragonFly on a Intel G965 Mainboard

2006-11-13 Thread Gergo Szakal
Markus Hitter wrote: My question is: is there some option to run not only the bootloader, but the entire OS off BIOS drivers? If not, how would I go to add such support? May sound a stupid question, but.. there is an option in BIOS like 'PnP OS installed'. Try setting that to No and see wha

Re: DragonFly on a Intel G965 Mainboard

2006-11-13 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 13.11.2006 um 13:39 schrieb Gergo Szakal: there is an option in BIOS like 'PnP OS installed'. Try setting that to No and see what happens. I'd like to and Intel's Technical Product spcification even writes about "If you select Auto in the BIOS Setup program ...", but I'm either blind

Re: DragonFly on a Intel G965 Mainboard

2006-11-13 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Mon, November 13, 2006 12:30 pm, Markus Hitter wrote: > I'd like to and Intel's Technical Product spcification even writes > about "If you select Auto in the BIOS Setup program ...", but I'm > either blind or there is no item in the BIOS setup menu to do such an > selection. Intel doesn't talk

Re: DragonFly on a Intel G965 Mainboard

2006-11-13 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:30:45PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > Still I think an option to run DragonFly off BIOS drivers would be a > good thing. Hardware changes every few months and if the bootloader > works, why shouldn't the remaining OS? Performance is a secondary issue. The performance

Re: DragonFly on a Intel G965 Mainboard

2006-11-14 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 14.11.2006 um 08:48 schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:30:45PM +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Still I think an option to run DragonFly off BIOS drivers would be a good thing. Hardware changes every few months and if the bootloader works, why shouldn't the remaining OS? Perf